Auf Wiedersehen!

Bye bye England
Bye bye Europe
Bye bye any sense that we have the slightest idea what we're doing
Bye bye comfort
Bye bye laptop
Bye bye friends
Bye bye family
Hello adventure!

Here we go! w0000000000000000t!

Thanks to all our friends and family for putting us up/ putting up with us over the last month, and for your all round excellence. If we have as many interesting adventures around the world as we've had with you lot, we're in for a great year :-)

Girly love and manly hugs to you all. Missing you already!

1st stop - Havana...

Ben and Debs

Good riddance

Two days of work left to go and I am READY for the off.

I thought I'd make a little list of things that I'm really looking forward to seeing the back of, just so I can remind myself when we get back. So here goes:

• Stress sickness: I get properly nauseated - and I mean really retching and stuff - pretty much every day. My Doctor tells me it's stress. Byeee!
• Time poverty: I'm sick of being always on/ always busy/ rush rush/ finish one thing get on with the next thing. I'm a human being goddammit, not a robot. Seeya later!
• Arms/ hands/ RSI twinges: Not much, but sometimes at work, bits of me hurt, and I worry that in a few years time those bits will start to fall off. Sayonara!
• Drinking: Too much. Really, too much. From the habitual couple of cans a night to the full blast bingespazz self-abuse. My theory is that, with less stress in my life, I will feel less need to drink. Auf Wiedersehen!
• Alarm clocks: Nuff said. Ja mata!
• Mobile phones: Cool things, really - just looking forward to not having one on me 24 hours a day. Catch you on the other side!
• Computers: I really, really like computers, but seriously, I spend more time with PCs than I do with my wife. If that's not fucked up, I don't know what is. Adieu!
• Rut life: Follow on from the last point. Debs and I work hard, and have busy lives, and we have hit a groove where we spend so much time doing unrewarding organization work that there's barely anything left over for us - and when we get some, we're too tired to enjoy it for ourselves. Poka!

So balls to that: the next year is for me and Debs. And we are going to eat it up like a Pea Risotto. Yum!

Ben